{"id":15840,"date":"2011-08-24T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15840"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:06:00","slug":"developing-supreme-court-vacates-freedmen-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15840","title":{"rendered":"Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeephoenix.org\/Article\/Index\/5437\" target=\"_blank\">Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeephoenix.org\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Phoenix<\/a><br \/>\n2011-08-23<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:christina-goodvoice@cherokee.org \" target=\"_blank\">Christina Good Voice<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tahlequah,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Tahlequah, Okla.<\/a> \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeecourts.org\/SupremeCourt.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Nation Supreme Court<\/a> issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeecourts.org\/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=evi5B2Y32Mc%3d&amp;tabid=3726&amp;mid=7052\" target=\"_blank\">a 16-page ruling Aug. 22<\/a> that reversed and vacated the decision of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeecourts.org\/DistrictCourt.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CN District Court<\/a> regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee_freedmen_controversy\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Freedmen<\/a>, stating that the Cherokee people had the right to amend the CN constitution and set citizenship requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokee.org\/OurGovernment\/Executive\/PrincipalChiefsOffice\/24810\/Information.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Acting Principal Chief Joe Crittenden<\/a> addressed the ruling at the Aug. 22 council meeting in his State of the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us, the council, the staff and myself got copies (of the ruling,)\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going to defer to our attorney general for some comments concerning this. I know there are a lot of questions on people\u2019s minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hammons said the ruling, which was filed at 5 p.m. Monday evening, reverses the decision of the District Court&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The court also found that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee_freedmen_controversy#Treaty_of_1866\" target=\"_blank\">Treaty of 1866<\/a> only granted to Freedmen the rights of native Cherokees but that it was the constitution of the Cherokee people that granted them citizenship, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe freedmen at the time gained citizenship status in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee_Nation\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Nation<\/a> by the Cherokee people\u2019s sovereign expression in the 1866 constitutional amendment to the 1839 Cherokee Nation constitution,\u201d according to the ruling. \u201cIt stands to reason that if the Cherokee People had the right to define the Cherokee Nation citizenship in the above mentioned 1866 Constitutional Amendment they would have the sovereign right to change the definition of the Cherokee Nation citizenship in their sovereign expression in the March 3, 2007 Constitutional Amendment.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeephoenix.org\/Article\/Index\/5437\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling Cherokee Phoenix 2011-08-23 Christina Good Voice, Senior Reporter Tahlequah, Okla. \u2013 The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court issued a 16-page ruling Aug. 22 that reversed and vacated the decision of the CN District Court regarding the Cherokee Freedmen, stating that the Cherokee people had the right to amend the CN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,3015,20],"tags":[2094,7317,7316,7318,1777],"class_list":["post-15840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-cherokee-nation","tag-cherokee-phoenix","tag-christina-good-voice","tag-joe-crittenden","tag-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47340,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840\/revisions\/47340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}